Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Surgery Date
My eye surgery has been scheduled for Feb. 9th. I saw Dr. McKinnon on Tuesday. He feels that my eye pressure is ok for Dr. Afshari and himself to proceed with my surgery. The pressure was 12 in each eye. Dr. McKinnon will be placing drain tubes in my eyes to help relieve the eye pressure due to the glaucoma. During the same surgery Dr. Afshari will be doing my cornea transplant. She will be using a plastic cornea rather than a donor cornea. The plastic cornea has the benefits of the body not rejecting the cornea and with the plastic cornea the cornea will not become hazey like with a donor cornea. The major drawback to the plastic cornea is that their is a very high risk of infection. So I will have to take antibotic eye drops for the rest of my life. This is a small price to pay to finally have clear vision once again.
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Hi. In 2001 I had a corneal transplant and have written about it in my blog. I've also created a social networking site for those who have had a corneal transplant or will be having one. If you are interested the link is:
http://cornealtransplantsupport.ning.com
Wishing you great sucess with your corneal transplant!
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